... career, Julius Caesar appointed Antony as a staff officer in 52 BC. Antony assisted Caesar in the conquering and invasions of Britain and Gaul. Antony was gaining popularity and support throughout Rome and became a high-ranking statesmen. When Caesar was killed Mark Antony assumed the role of leader of Rome, but Caesar's nephew believed that he should be a ruler, so he challenged Antony. Mark Antony and his lover Cleopatra fled to Egypt where ... they committed suicide together. Antony was married four ... ...

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... cultural capital of the Hellenistic east. The Ptolmies had made Alexandria "the greatest emporium in the inhabited world" and indeed this influenced Cleopatra greatly. The Ptolmaic family was "mindful of the customs common to the Greeks" and Cleopatra's Greek heritage dictated her lifestyle dress and language. However, she was also influenced by local Egyptian culture, particularly the Egyptian religion with which she later ... her country. John of Nikiu describes her as "The most illustrious and wise among women...great in herself and in her achievements in courage and strength". Cleopat...

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... of our General's Overflows the measure: those his goodly eyes have glowed like plated Mars" However, as the story develops Anthony loses track of his priorities, placing his relationship with Cleopatra above everything else. This change in priority causes the disregard of his duties; he has turned from being a responsible, trustworthy leader to a careless, unprincipled fool. Oblivious to his surroundings, this ... or mock Anthony. A good representation of this loss of respect is Philo's description of Anthony himself " and is become the bellows and the fan to cool a Gypsy's lust" Antony...

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... before he was offered a Throne- (Cleopatra VII Ptolemaic Dynasty, http://interoz.com/egypt/cleopatr.htm: 17th August 2003) The outcome of the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra was a son, the soon-to-be murdered Caesarion, whom Cleopatra set up as a co-regent after the murder of her second brother, Ptolemy XIV. In 41 B.C. Mark Antony arranged to meet Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. He fell in love ... with her, and had Plutarch write a description of her as, "Her beauty was not ... Octavian declared war on him. By 37 B.C. Cleopatra and Mark Antony were married, giving Cleopatra the Roman su...

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... responsible for the change in Rome's Government was Augustus. He first came to Rome after he was notified of Caesar's assassination. After confronting his enemies Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Activum, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide and Augustus was left unchallenged by any man. On his return to Rome he proclaimed he would restore the Republic, He reduced the number of senators from ... 1000 to 800 and he to the title of Princeps Senatus, which gave him authority to reshape the government. In 27BC Augustus was granted his seventh consulship and consented to accept .....

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... as tenant farmers or hired hands. Because the upper classes had enough wealth to buy the abandoned land cheap and slaves provided labor, they transformed the area into large plantations and cattle ranches. This divided the classes more sharply into the poor landless and the wealthy landed. Tiberius Gracchus became tribune on a program of land reform. His basic idea was that the ... army against Rome to regain command of the war against Mithridates in Asia from Marius. After Sulla departed to fight in Asia, Marius retook Rome by force, outlawed Sulla and massacred his senatorial oppositi...

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... made his assertion of the bravery and loyalty of the gladiator troop far more compelling. "People and Princes without exception refused their assistance to Antony yet the men who were being kept for gladiatorial combats, who were among the most despised, showed the utmost zeal in [Antony and Cleopatra's] behalf and fought most bravely "7 Despite Dio's antipathy and dislike towards gladiators on the whole ... it is apparent that he did, in fact, believe that some gladiators and, by extension, common men were ... indeed worthy of trust and respect. In short, that they could be honorable ...

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... of Caesar, a teenager by the time Cato the Younger had committed suicide, refusing to accept Caesar's clementia, and an adult approaching middle age by the time of Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra. Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the ... demise of the Republic. Even figures like Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla had died less than 100 years before ... with all of the other great personalities of the late Republic. Livy had seen the impact of men like Sulla, Marius, Pompey, and Caesar, and was...

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